Fully Funded PhD studentship: New Media Art in the Data-City

  • Location: Dublin, Ireland
  • Deadline: Jun 15 2016 at 3:06PM
The Dublin Institute of Technology in conjunction with the Graduate School of Creative Arts and Media (GradCAM) invites application for a fully funded PhD studentship in the area of practice based New Media Art.

Project Description

The contemporary city exists in a haze of code and is characterized by extensive sensor networks, formal and informal, that capture all aspects of urban life as data. The city as data-space is subject to regimes of algorithmic governance that evade public scrutiny even as they produce the space of the city in a Lefebvrian sense. This call asks how critical new media art practices and interdisciplinary collaborations, that engage with the networked data assemblages of the emergent smart city, can serve to make legible the opaque algorithmic processes of can be termed the data-city. Can novel methodologies for critical engagement with this data-city be developed and what insights will they offer into new forms of publicness contingent on these networked data assemblages.


This call seeks proposals that explore interdisciplinary and collaborative responses to these issues coming from practice-based artistic research, new media and sound art practices, contemporary art, urban studies, code studies, and interdisciplinary and transdisciplinary permutations of the above. It is envisaged that responses could be aesthetic, technical, activist or theoretical in nature or interdisciplinary combinations of the above.


Scholarship
A scholarship of €14,500 per year for a maximum of 4 years, subject to annual evaluation. Tuition fees will be paid. Non-EU applicants are eligible to take up the scholarships however they will be required to fund the fee differential.


Supervisory team
Dr Conor McGarrigle and Dr Noel Fitzpatrick, Dublin Institute of Technology.


More Information
http://www.dit.ie/researchandenterprise/graduateresearchschool/phdopportunities/phdprojects/artstourism/

www.gradcam.ie
www.dit.ie/creativearts/

Contact: conor.mcgarrigle [AT] dit.ie